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VCUarts Cinema

VCUarts Cinema (VCU)

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  • Basic Facts
  • Mission & Strategy
  • Degree Areas
  • Key Teaching Staff
  • Successful Graduates

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    2007

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    2014

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    2007

  • Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:

    State of Virginia

  • Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):

    Rob Tregenza

  • Address:

    325 N Harrison St, Richmond, Virginia 23284

  • Country:

    United States

  • Website:

    https://www.facebook.com/vcuartscinema/

  • Points of Contact

    Telephone:
    +1 804 82 87 919
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Administrative Director: Nikita Moyer
    Email:
    moyernr@vcu.edu
    Email:
    cinema@vcu.edu

Mission & Strategy

VCUarts Cinema is a 3-year film production program based out of Richmond, Virginia—a rapidly growing film & television hub on the US East Coast. The program strives to produce classically informed, technically proficient, and academically empowered graduates.

Year One: Visual Storytelling. Students write and produce sketches shot on digital utilizing elements of mise en scene and montage; attend workshops led by upperclassmen on G&E, camera, sound, editing, etc.

Year Two: Production. Students learn the roles found on a professional film set. The class produces a 35mm short.

Year Three: Business, Production Design & Film Theory. Students work on practical skills such as pitching concepts, negotiation, and business strategy. Students study aesthetic, theoretical, and philosophical elements of storytelling.

Summer Intensives: Students write and produce 6 shorts on 35mm over the course of 8 weeks. The intensive is taken after the second and third years.

Key Teaching Staff

Tregenza, Rob

Field of Teaching: Dean, Professor
Major Achievements:

Writer, director, and cinematographer of three independent feature length films: Talking to Strangers, Inside/Out, and The Arc. Cinematographer of Bela Tarr’s Werkmeister Harmonies.

Kjeldsen, Kirk

Field of Teaching: Screenwriting
Website Reference: https://kirkkjeldsen.com/
Major Achievements:

Author of “Tomorrow City,” screenwriter.

Tyree, J.M.

Field of Teaching: Film Theory
Major Achievements:

New England Review associate editor, Truman Capote–Wallace Stegner Fellow, co-author of “Our Secret Life in the Movies,” an NPR Best Book of 2014. Contributor to Sight & Sound magazine, author of “BFI Film Classics: Salesman,” coauthor, with Ben Walters, of “BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski.”

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